Vaud-based scale-up Astrocast, a leading global Satellite IoT network operator, will participate in the European Union-funded XGain initiative, aiming to reduce the digital divide between urban and rural areas. The startup’s Satellite IoT technology and network will enable remote oyster farms in Croatia to monitor water quality.
With a €4.88 million budget co-funded by the European Union, 17 partners from 12 countries have joined their efforts for the XGain project, which began in September 2022 and will last three years.
XGain aims to diminish urban-rural digital inequalities via XG, last-mile connectivity and edge computing solutions and offers appropriate assessment methods to foster the sustainable, balanced, and inclusive development of rural, coastal and urban areas with technology. It achieves this for suitable organisations and projects by providing relevant stakeholders access to a comprehensive inventory of smart XG.
Further, the XGain programme provides those involved with a Knowledge Facilitation Tool to draw on. This tool enables XGain to facilitate business model development for participating organisations; and supports the decision-making when selecting an ecosystem of appropriate technologies to suit the various projects and initiatives for various organisations. For example, selecting suitable connectivity and edge-processing solutions for projects.
Oyster farms in Croatia benefit from Astrocast’s SatIoT
Swiss startup Astrocast will provide its expertise in SatIoT and access to its communication modules to support the aquaculture project in Croatia. It will allow key water parameters to be monitored at an oyster farm near Sibenik – and showcase how data can be retrieved from devices – sensors – located in such remote locations. The project also demonstrates how an extended network infrastructure, supplemented by LoRaWAN and Satellite Communications, can be used to transmit data from offshore sensors to a central monitoring system.
In line with XGain’s objective, the aquaculture use case in Croatia demonstrates the powerful need and use of SatIoT technology to benefit organisations – highlighting the key potential technology offers to improve the economic and environmental performance within the agricultural and forestry sectors too.
Martynas Velicka, Benco Baltic adds, “Benco Baltic is pleased to work with Astrocast in the aquaculture use case in Croatia. We believe using SatIoT technology will bring valuable insights into the water parameters of the oyster farm and help improve its performance.”
Astrocast’s involvement in the project and support of the aquaculture use case in Croatia underscores its commitment to providing satellite-based IoT solutions that help bridge the digital divide in rural areas.
(Press release/RAN)
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